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As part of our planned preventative maintenance, electrical contractors will be carrying out essential maintenance to replace a critical component in each of our bypass panels which have been identified as problematic by the manufacturers.

During the work the power supply to the racks will be isolated.

We're sorry for the inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience in this matter.

Date - 31/03/2018 06:45 - 31/03/2018 08:05

Last Updated - 31/03/2018 01:07

Server Non-Responsive – earth (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - earth

We are investigating a problem with the earth server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

Date - 08/02/2018 09:51 - 08/02/2018 10:06

Last Updated - 08/02/2018 09:56

Kernel upgrade (Resolved)

Priority - Medium

Affecting System - earth

The server earth will be rebooted for an important kernel update.

The server’s will be down for 5 to 10 minutes while it reboot's.

Thanks.

Date - 06/01/2018 03:01 - 06/01/2018 03:13

Last Updated - 06/01/2018 03:02

Kernel upgrade (Resolved)

Priority - Medium

Affecting System - echo

The server echo will be rebooted for an important kernel update.

The server’s will be down for 5 to 10 minutes while it reboot's.

Thanks.

Date - 06/01/2018 02:21 - 06/01/2018 02:45

Last Updated - 06/01/2018 02:22

Kernel upgrade (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - titan

The server titan will be rebooted for an important kernel update.

The server’s will be down for 5 to 10 minutes while it reboot.

Thanks.

Date - 06/01/2018 01:52 - 06/01/2018 02:09

Last Updated - 06/01/2018 01:56

Server Non-Responsive – earth (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - earth

We are investigating a problem with the earth server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

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The service has been restored and your website/email service should be up and running.Once again we're sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Date - 09/05/2017 08:24 - 09/05/2017 09:07

Last Updated - 09/05/2017 08:38

Server Non-Responsive – earth (Resolved)

Priority - Critical

Affecting System - earth

We are investigating a problem with the earth server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

Date - 16/01/2017 18:40 - 16/01/2017 18:57

Last Updated - 16/01/2017 18:41

Server Non-Responsive – earth (Resolved)

Priority - Critical

Affecting System - earth

We are investigating a problem with the earth server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

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The service has been restored. We are currently looking into the cause of the issue.

We would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused

Date - 05/01/2017 20:28 - 05/01/2017 23:25

Last Updated - 07/01/2017 08:44

(Echo server) connectivity issue (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - echo

We're currently aware of a denial of service attack hitting our Wolverhampton Datacentre.

**Update**

We're still working on mitigating the attack.

**Update**We're seeing the network partially come back and apologise for the issues today. We will keep posting here when an all clear has been issued.

**Update**

We now have all our upstreams on the case of black holing this DDoS attack and should hopefully have full service restored any minute.

**Update**

The service has been restored and your website/email service should be up and running.Once again we're sorry for the inconvenience caused.

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Date - 21/10/2016 12:52 - 21/10/2016 13:40

Last Updated - 22/10/2016 12:57

(Titan server) connectivity issue (Resolved)

Priority - Critical

We are investigating a problem with the titan server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

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The datacentre is looking into the issue. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

--We're sorry for the inconvenience caused. The tech's are still looking into this issue. It appears to be hardware related issue. We do not currently have an ETA. We'll update you as soon as we have further information.

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Update:

Server failed to restart. Server replacement under way.

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We're sorry for the inconvenience caused. Unfortunately the server motherboard failed hence the delay in replacement. The service has been restored and your website/email service should be up and running.

Once again we're sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Date - 03/09/2016 07:58 - 03/09/2016 13:00

Last Updated - 03/09/2016 14:29

(Echo server) connectivity issue (Resolved)

Priority - High

Were currently investigating some network disruption at our Wolverhampton Datacentre. Further info to follow.

**Update**

We're still currently working on a network outage to Wolverhampton and will post another update at 23:30. Apologies for the issues this evening.

**Update**

[23:30] The root cause has been identified. We're working on restoring service as soon as possible.

**Update**

[00:00]

We are still working hard to resolve these issues which are due to a number of issues with our core routers in our London Docklands (THE) point of presence. Again we must apologise for these issues and a full reason for outage will be provided within 48 hours.

[00:30]

Service is now being restored to affected customers. An RFO will be sent out within 48 hours. We're really sorry for the problems over the last couple of hours.

Date - 18/06/2016 22:41

Last Updated - 19/06/2016 00:53

Server Move: echo - 11/12/2015 23:45 (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - echo

The server: echo will move to different part of the data centre due to restructuring work. The server is scheduled to be moved on:

Friday 11th December 2015 @ 23:45 hours.

Duration Approx: 45 Mins

We apologise if this maintenance period causes disruption and will do all we can to minimise it.

Thank you.

Regards,

AR Hosting Solutions.

Date - 11/12/2015 23:45 - 12/12/2015 00:59

Last Updated - 08/12/2015 12:21

Server Non-Responsive – earth (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - earth

We are investigating a problem with the earth server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

Date - 11/05/2015 14:01 - 11/05/2015 14:41

Last Updated - 11/05/2015 14:02

Server Non-Responsive – alpha (Resolved)

Priority - Medium

Affecting System - Alpha

We're investigating a problem with the alpha server as it is non-responsive at the moment. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

Apologies for any inconvenience

The server is running fsck and will back online shortly.

Apologies for any inconvenience

Date - 22/01/2015 02:15 - 22/01/2015 03:58

Last Updated - 22/01/2015 03:07

Network Maintenance (Resolved)

Priority - Medium

Affecting Other - echo

Date: 18th Jan 2015Start Time: 22:00End Time: 00:00

During the maintenance window above software upgrades will be performed as well as a reboot of the core routers. Customers will lose service for a small period of time.

Date - 18/01/2015 22:00 - 19/01/2015 01:54

Last Updated - 18/01/2015 18:32

(Echo server) Intermittent connectivity issue (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - echo

At present, we have engineers looking into this as a matter of urgency.

Please be assured we are working to rectify this issue as a priority and hope to resume normal service as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience in the mean time.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused.

UPDATE:

The engineers are on site and are working to rectify this issue as a priority.We apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Update:

The issue caused by a localised issue within the DC. The cause of which is yet unknown but of course will be investigated. Emergency services are on site and have deemed the situation under control.

As a result of the issue, air conditioning units in the area affected went offline and temperatures within the datacentre have risen - this has caused servers to go offline as a fail-safe mechanism.

We are doing everything we can to restore services as quickly as possible to all those servers affected, and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.

Update:

The service has been restored.

We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.

Date - 15/11/2014 02:34 - 22/11/2014 17:39

Last Updated - 15/11/2014 05:08

Alpha server move has been postponed (Resolved)

Priority - Medium

Affecting System - Alpha

The Alpha server move on the 12th November 2014 has been postponed due to another server requiring replacement sooner. We will be rescheduling the Alpha server move later on this month as we run new servers under hardware tests and then bring into service.

We‘re sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Date - 12/11/2014 00:17 - 15/11/2014 02:55

Last Updated - 12/11/2014 00:19

DELTA server replacement announcement (Resolved)

Priority - Low

Affecting System - Delta

We announced back in August 2014 that we will be replacing servers in the coming months.
AR Hosting Solutions is happy to announce that server delta will be replaced with a brand new HP server with latest hardware and this will greatly improve performance and website loading times.
Your hosting account(s) will be moved on to our new server ECHO starting from: 8th NOVEMBER 2014 at 1.00AM.
No name servers changes are necessary as you can use the existing name servers.

An announcement email has been sent out to all clients that are hosted on the delta server.

Date - 08/11/2014 01:00 - 09/11/2014 12:20

Last Updated - 08/11/2014 00:04

Server Non-Responsive – delta (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - delta

We are investigating a problem with the delta server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

UPDATE:

The server is running disk checks at the moment and it will be back online shortly.

UPDATE;

The service has been restored.

We're sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Date - 30/10/2014 21:45 - 31/10/2014 07:29

Last Updated - 30/10/2014 22:27

Server Non-Responsive – delta (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting Other - delta

We are investigating a problem with the delta server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

The service will be restored shortly.

sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Update:

Service was restored at 19:03 hours. Our techs will be looking into the cause of the outage.

We're sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Date - 23/10/2014 18:39 - 24/10/2014 00:14

Last Updated - 23/10/2014 19:18

Server: earth Connectivity Interruption (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting Other - server earth

We are currently experiencing connectivity interruption on the earth server.

We have engineers investigating this issue on site.

We would like apologies for the inconvenience this will have caused and we'll endeavour to keep you updated.

Update:The issue caused by a localised issue within the DC, caused by third party equipment - the cause of which is yet unknown but of course will be investigated. Emergency services are on site and have deemed the situation under control.

As a result of the issue, air conditioning units in the area affected went offline and temperatures within the datacentre have risen - this has caused servers to go offline as a fail-safe mechanism. The air-conditioning units are back online and functioning as normal, with temperatures declining. The datacentre team are manually restoring power to those servers that aren't coming back online immediately.

We are doing everything we can to restore services as quickly as possible to all those servers affected, and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.

Date - 17/10/2014 23:52 - 18/10/2014 03:50

Last Updated - 18/10/2014 05:39

MySQL Upgrade (Resolved)

Priority - Medium

Affecting System - alpha

We will be performing MySQL upgrade on the server: alpha at: 2AM.

We expect the downtime will be less then<20 minutes on the MySQL service.

We are sorry for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Date - 14/08/2014 01:38 - 14/08/2014 06:09

Last Updated - 14/08/2014 01:39

Server Non-Responsive – earth (Resolved)

Priority - Critical

Affecting System - earth

We are investigating a problem with the earth server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

The server is running disk checks and should be back online shortly.

The disk checks are still ongoing. We will update you shortly.

The disk checks (FSCK) are still ongoing. We will update you shortly.

We had issue with KVM (remote keyboard /video stopped responding). The disk check is now ongoing and the server will be back online shortly.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused. Our techs are working on the server to bring the service back to normal.

It’s taking longer then usual. We are investigating the cause of the issue.

We are hopeful the service will resume shortly.

Thank you,.=====

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused. Our techs worked tireless for the past 3 and half hours on the server to bring the service back to normal.

Unfortunately it longer then expected. The first check failed and the second check was done manually and which took time.

We will provide the cause of the outage once we have completed the investigation.

Thank you.

Date - 08/08/2014 17:34 - 09/08/2014 21:59

Last Updated - 08/08/2014 21:31

MySQL Upgrade (Resolved)

Priority - Medium

Affecting System - earth

We will be performing MySQL upgrade on the server: earth on 13/07/2014 at: 12AM.

We expect the downtime will be less then<20 minutes on the MySQL service.

We are sorry for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Date - 13/07/2014 00:00 - 13/07/2014 00:31

Last Updated - 12/07/2014 00:48

MySQL Upgrade (Resolved)

Priority - Medium

Affecting System - delta

MySQL upgrade is underway. The service will be back online shortly. Thank you.

Date - 22/06/2014 02:39 - 22/06/2014 02:57

Last Updated - 22/06/2014 02:41

Server Non-Responsive – earth (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - earth

We are investigating a problem with the earth server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

The server is running disk checks and should be back online shortly.

The disk checks are still ongoing. We will update you shortly.

The server is responsive once again. We are still investigating the cause of the outage.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Date - 17/03/2014 12:19 - 20/03/2014 10:23

Last Updated - 17/03/2014 13:49

Server: earth will be rebooted for software u (Resolved)

Priority - Medium

Affecting System - earth

Please be advised:

On 18/02/2014 @ 02:00 hours.

Server: earth will be rebooted for software upgrade.

The server will down for 5 to 10 minutes while it reboots.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

The server is running disk checks and will be back online shortly.

Date - 18/02/2014 02:00 - 18/02/2014 02:31

Last Updated - 18/02/2014 02:15

Server Non-Responsive – alpha (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - alpha

We're investigating a problem with the alpha server as it is non-responsive at the moment. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

There will be minimal disruption to the service. While the IP address is changed and updated throughout the DNS servers.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries or questions.

Date - 18/01/2014 02:00 - 18/01/2014 03:57

Last Updated - 16/01/2014 23:14

Server Non-Responsive – earth (Resolved)

Priority - Critical

Affecting System - earth

We are investigating a problem with the earth server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

We have rebooted the server. The server is running the disk checks. We will update you shortly.

The server is back online. We are investigating the cause of the outage. We apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Date - 13/01/2014 19:43 - 13/01/2014 20:20

Last Updated - 14/01/2014 17:59

Server Non-Responsive – alpha (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - alpha

We are investigating a problem with the alpha server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

Date - 09/01/2014 06:32 - 09/01/2014 07:01

Last Updated - 09/01/2014 06:33

Server Non-Responsive – alpha (Network/Routin (Resolved)

Priority - Critical

Affecting System - alpha

We are investigating a problem with the alpha server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Update:The datacentre is looking into this issue and believe the issue to be routing/network related issue.

Update 2:

The service has been restored.

Date - 12/11/2013 01:07 - 12/11/2013 02:42

Last Updated - 12/11/2013 02:56

Server Non-Responsive – alpha (Resolved)

Priority - Critical

We are investigating a problem with the alpha server as it is non-responsive. We will update this post as soon as we have further information.

Update @ 13:20: The service has now been restored and we are investigating the cause of the outage. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Date - 22/10/2013 12:56 - 22/10/2013 13:20

Last Updated - 22/10/2013 14:51

Reading DC Problems (Resolved)

Priority - Critical

Affecting System - delta

We are looking into issues currently effecting our Reading DC.We apologies for any inconvenience caused by this.

UPDATE: 18th Oct 2013 16:04PM

At 14:47 this afternoon our Reading Data Centre experienced a two second power outage which resulted customers temporarily losing Server service.

Our early investigation indicates an issue in our second power fail over which did not perform as expected. We are already liaising with the power switch manufacturers to undertake a complete forensic analysis.

We have deployed all additional resources to the Reading Data Centre to assist with the situation. Please accept our sincerest apologies for the inconvenience caused and be reassured that we will take all necessary steps to protect against power loss in the future.

If you have any questions regarding this move, then please do not hesitate to contact us. We apologise if this maintenance period causes disruption and will do all we can to minimise it.

Thank you. Regards, AR Hosting Solutions

Date - 17/09/2013 22:00 - 18/09/2013 03:03

Last Updated - 18/09/2013 03:11

Earth Server - Outage (Resolved)

Priority - Critical

This issue is affecting clients on server earth.

Our technicians are looking in to this issue as matter of urgency.

We will provide more information as soon it’s available.

Thank you.

Date - 26/04/2013 01:20 - 26/04/2013 01:25

Last Updated - 26/04/2013 01:21

Network Disruption due to third party upstrea (Resolved)

Priority - Low

Affecting Other - Network

We are currently working with one of our upstream providers, who have notified us about a network issue as a result of them making a configuration change. We had not been notified of the change.

Our core networking teams are doing what they can to mitigate the issue and looking into re-routing traffic. This will be performed in the next few minutes, when connectivity should improve.

We will keep you updated on this matter and sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this is causing.

Date - 05/02/2013 16:10 - 05/02/2013 16:39

Last Updated - 05/02/2013 16:15

Earth Server - Outage (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting Other - Earth Server - Outage

This issue is affecting clients on server earth.

Our technicians are looking in to this issue as matter of urgency.

We will provide more information as soon it’s available.

Thank you.

Date - 21/01/2013 16:34 - 21/01/2013 17:04

Last Updated - 21/01/2013 16:35

Alpha server outage (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting System - Alpha Server - Outage

This issue is affecting clients on server alpha.

Our technicians are looking in to this issue as matter of urgency.

We will provide more information as soon it’s available.

Thank you.

Date - 13/11/2012 23:20 - 13/11/2012 23:38

Last Updated - 13/11/2012 23:22

Service Outage. (Resolved)

Priority - High

Affecting Other - Server: Earth

At present, we have engineers looking into this as a matter of urgency.

Please be assured we are working to rectify this issue as a priority and hope to resume normal service as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience in the mean time.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Date - 16/09/2012 18:29 - 16/09/2012 18:45

Last Updated - 16/09/2012 18:30

Intermittent connectivity issues (Resolved)

Priority - Medium

Affecting Other - Network

From our data centre:

Earlier this evening we started to experience intermittent connectivity issues with segments of our network. Our core networking team identified the issue as a very significant, distributed denial of service attack that was saturating some of our upstream providers, with some customers experiencing drops in connectivity .

The traffic has been identified and re-routed, with normal service being restored as quickly as possible.

The traffic will be intensely monitored throughout the night to ensure normal service continues and we will provide further updates as necessary.